The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Support Engineer
Rank 812 847 798
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -49
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Support Engineer 52 53 72
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.048% 0.043% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.046% 0.063%
Number of salaries quoted 38 49 71
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £29,000 £23,800
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £43,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £31,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-11.42% +7.69%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102708 116230 115193
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.43% 94.76% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 85414 99672 97379
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Linux Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Linux Support Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Linux Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Support Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Linux Support Engineer within the UK.

Linux Support Engineer Salary Trend

Linux Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Support Engineer over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 within the UK.

Linux Support Engineer Salary Histogram

Linux Support Engineer
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Support Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +32 52 £35,000 -
South East +10 26 £25,000 -28.57%
Berkshire +18 19 £23,000 -45.88%
Reading - 16 £23,000 -
London +53 15 £45,000 +28.57%
City of London +29 10 £60,000 +50.00%
East of England +11 5 £33,000 -21.42%
Cambridgeshire - 4 £35,000 -
Cambridge - 4 £35,000 -
Surrey +11 3 £36,500 -14.11%
Slough - 3 £50,000 -
Yorkshire - 3 £40,000 -
West Yorkshire - 3 £40,000 -
Hampshire +6 2 £25,000 -16.66%
North West -17 2 £33,750 +12.50%
Oxfordshire -20 2 £35,000 -
Farnborough - 2 £25,000 -
Camberley - 2 £36,500 -
Oxford - 2 £35,000 -
Wakefield - 2 £40,000 -
Hertfordshire +4 1 £26,500 -36.90%
Stockport -11 1 £29,000 -
Manchester -15 1 £29,000 -3.33%
Ealing - 1 - -
Tyne and Wear - 1 - -
North East - 1 - -
Cheshire - 1 £38,500 -
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 - -
Leeds - 1 - -
Hertford - 1 £26,500 -

Linux Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Linux Support Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Linux Support Engineer in their job title.

1 110 (100.00%) Linux
2 62 (56.36%) Windows
3 60 (54.55%) Red Hat
4 33 (30.00%) UNIX
4 33 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 31 (28.18%) CentOS
6 30 (27.27%) Ubuntu
7 29 (26.36%) TCP/IP
8 28 (25.45%) Apache
9 21 (19.09%) MySQL
10 20 (18.18%) Debian
11 18 (16.36%) VMware
12 17 (15.45%) Bash shell
13 16 (14.55%) Java
13 16 (14.55%) Perl
14 15 (13.64%) Tomcat
14 15 (13.64%) SUSE
15 13 (11.82%) DNS
16 12 (10.91%) Shell Script
16 12 (10.91%) Python
16 12 (10.91%) Firewall
17 11 (10.00%) Finance
17 11 (10.00%) PHP
17 11 (10.00%) SQL
17 11 (10.00%) HTTP
18 10 (9.091%) Microsoft
18 10 (9.091%) Windows 7
19 9 (8.182%) Windows Server 2008
19 9 (8.182%) WebSphere
19 9 (8.182%) SMTP

Linux Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Linux Support Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Linux Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (8.182%) WebSphere
2 3 (2.727%) LAMP
3 2 (1.818%) Java EE
4 1 (0.909%) J2EE
4 1 (0.909%) ASP
4 1 (0.909%) JSP
4 1 (0.909%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 28 (25.45%) Apache
2 15 (13.64%) Tomcat
3 7 (6.364%) WebSphere MQ
4 6 (5.455%) IIS
5 3 (2.727%) MS Exchange
5 3 (2.727%) CMS
5 3 (2.727%) nginx
5 3 (2.727%) WordPress
5 3 (2.727%) Alfresco
5 3 (2.727%) GlassFish
5 3 (2.727%) Drupal
6 2 (1.818%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (1.818%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (3.636%) MS Office
2 3 (2.727%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 29 (26.36%) TCP/IP
2 13 (11.82%) DNS
3 12 (10.91%) Firewall
4 11 (10.00%) HTTP
5 9 (8.182%) SMTP
5 9 (8.182%) LAN
5 9 (8.182%) WAN
6 7 (6.364%) SAN
7 6 (5.455%) VPN
7 6 (5.455%) DHCP
8 5 (4.545%) FTP
8 5 (4.545%) Internet
9 4 (3.636%) IMAP
9 4 (3.636%) Network Security
9 4 (3.636%) SNMP
10 3 (2.727%) POP3
10 3 (2.727%) SSH
10 3 (2.727%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (2.727%) iSCSI
11 2 (1.818%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.09%) MySQL
2 4 (3.636%) Big Data
3 3 (2.727%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.727%) Text Mining
3 3 (2.727%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (2.727%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (0.909%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.818%) JIRA
1 2 (1.818%) Mercurial
General
1 11 (10.00%) Finance
2 4 (3.636%) Telecoms
3 2 (1.818%) Games
4 1 (0.909%) Retail
4 1 (0.909%) French Language
4 1 (0.909%) German Language
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.455%) Clustering
1 6 (5.455%) Client/Server
2 4 (3.636%) Wiki
3 3 (2.727%) Handset
3 3 (2.727%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.727%) Open Source
4 2 (1.818%) Online Games
4 2 (1.818%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.909%) Replication
5 1 (0.909%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.909%) EqualLogic
5 1 (0.909%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 110 (100.00%) Linux
2 62 (56.36%) Windows
3 33 (30.00%) UNIX
3 33 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (28.18%) CentOS
5 30 (27.27%) Ubuntu
6 20 (18.18%) Debian
7 15 (13.64%) SUSE
8 10 (9.091%) Windows 7
9 9 (8.182%) Windows Server 2008
10 6 (5.455%) Windows 8
10 6 (5.455%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (4.545%) Windows XP
11 5 (4.545%) Solaris
12 4 (3.636%) Mac OS X
13 3 (2.727%) AIX
13 3 (2.727%) Fedora
13 3 (2.727%) Apple iOS
14 2 (1.818%) Windows Vista
14 2 (1.818%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (5.455%) E-Commerce
1 6 (5.455%) ITIL
2 4 (3.636%) Problem Management
2 4 (3.636%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (2.727%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (2.727%) Change Control
3 3 (2.727%) Data Protection
3 3 (2.727%) Load Balancing
4 2 (1.818%) Operations Management
4 2 (1.818%) System Testing
4 2 (1.818%) ITSM
4 2 (1.818%) MVC
4 2 (1.818%) Service Management
4 2 (1.818%) Information Security
5 1 (0.909%) Benchmarking
5 1 (0.909%) B2B
5 1 (0.909%) B2C
5 1 (0.909%) Content Management
5 1 (0.909%) Service Delivery
5 1 (0.909%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 17 (15.45%) Bash shell
2 16 (14.55%) Java
2 16 (14.55%) Perl
3 12 (10.91%) Shell Script
3 12 (10.91%) Python
4 11 (10.00%) PHP
4 11 (10.00%) SQL
5 5 (4.545%) Ruby
6 3 (2.727%) C
7 2 (1.818%) Korn
7 2 (1.818%) C++
7 2 (1.818%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (5.455%) Degree
2 4 (3.636%) Postgraduate
3 3 (2.727%) HND
4 2 (1.818%) RHCE
5 1 (0.909%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.273%) SLA
2 3 (2.727%) QA
System Software
1 8 (7.273%) NFS
2 7 (6.364%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.364%) Samba
3 6 (5.455%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.545%) vSphere
5 3 (2.727%) VMware ESX
5 3 (2.727%) Varnish
5 3 (2.727%) Postfix
6 2 (1.818%) Nmap
7 1 (0.909%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.909%) qmail
7 1 (0.909%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.909%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.909%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.909%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (3.636%) Plesk
2 3 (2.727%) Puppet
3 2 (1.818%) WSUS
3 2 (1.818%) Nagios
4 1 (0.909%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 60 (54.55%) Red Hat
2 18 (16.36%) VMware
3 10 (9.091%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.273%) IBM
5 6 (5.455%) Cisco
6 5 (4.545%) Oracle
6 5 (4.545%) JBoss
6 5 (4.545%) NetApp
6 5 (4.545%) Intel
6 5 (4.545%) HP
7 3 (2.727%) CheckPoint
7 3 (2.727%) F5
8 2 (1.818%) Juniper
9 1 (0.909%) Apple
9 1 (0.909%) Veritas
9 1 (0.909%) Dell
9 1 (0.909%) EMC
9 1 (0.909%) 3PAR
Surrey
The right candidate will have basic experience within a Linux support environment, providing technical support across CentOS, Redhat, Ubuntu & Debian flavours. The organisation is going through vast change...
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Salary: £25000 - £28000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Graduate / Mid-level Linux Support Engineer x2 (NEW ROLE) My reputable client based in Glasgow is looking to hire 2 aspiring Graduates / Junior System Engineers during a period...
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Salary: £18000 - £27000 per annum + Excellent benefits and career progression
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Salary: £30,000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013